BATHINDA, Sept. 20 -- A team of ballistic and forensic experts from the Indian Army, on Friday, started the operation to sanitise the blast site at a house in Jeeda village near Bathinda, where a radicalised college student was allegedly preparing a human bomb.

Official sources said the army officials from New Delhi reached Bathinda on Thursday and inspected the house last evening, where the accused, Gurpreet Singh, was assembling a bomb using several chemicals.

Two high-intensity explosions took place inside the house on September 10, leaving accused Gurpreet Singh (19) and his father Jagtar Singh injured. The police learnt about it a day after a private hospital alerted the police about the nature of the injuries. While Gurpreet's rig...